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We have an exciting opening for a Humanitarian Officer to be based in Tearfund's global Disaster Risk Management Team.
This role provides global technical support for the management of new and ongoing humanitarian responses (partner led and direct operations) across Tearfund, with a strong emphasis on coordination and start up. Working alongside the Humanitarian Specialist, the Officer plays a critical role in coordinating emergency appeals and funding applications, liaising with donors, other agencies and internally within Tearfund. Where required, this role may be seconded to work direclty alongside a country team.
The Humanitarian Officer also actively facilitates learning during emergencies, ensuring learning from previous responses is applied in a timely way.
During periods between responses your focus will be:
- assisting regional offices and country teams with contingency planning, preparedness and humanitarian capacity assessment
- ensuring learning around humanitarian response is effectively compiled, disseminated and re-applied across the organisation,
- representing Tearfund to external networks,
- supporting best practice commitments,
- supporting Tearfund's global and regional emergency surge rosters
Are you educated to degree level or equivalent, with proven experience in emergency preparedness and response? Are you an organised person, with a good ability to plan, prioritise and organise multiple work tasks under tight timelines and in close cooperation with multiple stakeholders? Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, agile environment?
If your skills and experience match, then we'd love to hear from you!
This is a global role and can be based in any location where Tearfund has an office where the timezone is within +/- 3hrs of GMT. The role oversees a number of external activities which adhere to UK deadlines, therefore applicants must be able to work UK working hours (9am - 5pm).
All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
Tearfund is a Christian charity with over 50 years of experience in international development. We believe that poverty is not God’s plan,...
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Global Governance & Compliance Manager (ICSA membership or equivalent essential)
We are looking for highly motivated and ambitious Governance & Compliance Manager to join an established Marine Conservation charity.
Position: Global Governance & Compliance Manager
Location: Hyybrid/London or Bristol
Salary: circa. £60,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
About the Role:
The Global Governance & Compliance Manager will lead arrangements for governance and coordinate corporate and legal compliance across the organisation. Working with the trustees and senior leaders as a trusted advisor, you will provide day-to-day coordination and oversight of all governance bodies, meetings and working groups and ensuring efficient information flows between all boards and committees.
About You:
You will have a strong track record of Global Governance, Compliance and best practice across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.
You must have:
- Developed and implemented organisation-wide Global Governance Plans in the Not-for -profit sector.
- Organised and facilitated and ensured that good practice is met during executive meetings.
- Worked as a company secretary.
- Been involved in the recruitment and training of trustees, non-executive board members and advisors to the charity in line with the charities ED&I commitment.
- Experience of overseeing all regulatory requirements, legal interactions, regulatory compliance, procurement, insurance and contracts.
- Experience of coordinating necessary regulatory and legal changes to support the development of the organisation including registrations in new countries.
- Delivered a business resilience strategy to ensure the organisation can respond to, manage and recover from disruptive incidents effectively and efficiently.
- Implemented annual training to support the business continuity strategy, plans and processes.
Required Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level or qualified by demonstrable experience.
- Holds or is willing to work towards a recognised qualification in Governance / Risk management.
- Member of ICSA with substantial experience in governance and/or risk management or its equivalent.
Other roles you may have experience of could include Governance, Compliance, Policy, Business Continuity, Governance and Policy, Governance and Compliance, Governance Manager, Governance and Policy Manager, Governance and Compliance Manager, International Compliance Manager.
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is a Christian mission organisation using light aircraft to deliver help, hope and healing in over 25 countries. For more than 75 years, MAF aircraft have been overcoming inaccessible terrain transporting mission and development agency staff and delivering urgent aid and medical supplies to transform the lives of remote and isolated communities.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, and creative Philanthropy Writer to join our team with a focus on the development of relationships with high-net-worth individuals, a wide variety of trusts/foundations and corporate supporters. In this role you will make a key contribution in producing engaging written communications to grow both restricted and unrestricted income.
You will produce impactful and effective publicity materials and brochures. Using MAF’s tools, databases and platforms, including PowerBI, Bynder (media library) you will illustrate written reports with compelling visual support. In addition you will have a key role in researching and writing funding proposals/applications for individuals, trusts and foundations as well as liaising regularly with Relationship Managers to produce tailored reports and communications for individual donors and prospects. There will also be the opportunity for you to participate in a wide range of events to help cultivate new donors.
You will need to be educated to degree level with a focus on English communications/marketing. Recent experience of researching complex issues and financial information to produce compelling written reports is essential, as is multi-tasking, managing deadlines and maintaining attention to detail.
While this role is base at the MAF UK Offices in Folkestone, Kent, we are open to potential hybrid working in line with our flexible working policy, the needs of the business, the requirements of the role and your location. This will be discussed at interview.
Our working hours are at least 36 hours per week, with 1 hour for lunch daily unpaid. Hours should be agreed with line manager.
Terms and Benefits
We are happy to offer the successful candidate:
· Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per year and 8 paid public holidays per year
· Pension Scheme: Non-contributory (10% of salary)
· Probation and Notice Period: 3 months each
· A salary of £33,500 per annum
Deadline for applications: Friday, 5th April 2024 at 12noon.
Please note it is our hope to be able to conduct interviews as follows:
· Informal introductory on-line interview 12th April
· Formal face to face interview at the Folkestone office 24th April
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Read moreProcurement Manager
We are excited to welcome a Procurement Manager who will play a pivotal role in enhancing the procurement function within Muslim Hands.
About this job
As Procurement Manager, you will:
Lead the implementation of a procurement function and policies, which will involve working with a number of teams across the charity to shift perception and embed cultural change,
develop processes and skills throughout the charity, through mentoring and coaching, empowering managers to make cost-effective decisions,
lead on the development and maintenance of a contract register, with a focus on driving savings, and reviewing existing agreements
Support and monitor procurement compliance of international partners through delivering training on the charities policies that partners must comply through to compliance based on international standards and best practice
About you
To be successful in this role, you’ll need considerable experience in a senior procurement role, with a commercial focus, experience of dealing with international aid agencies and advanced negotiation skills to ensure Muslim Hands gets the best value for money. You’ll need strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate often complex information to lay audiences, while also having excellent attention to detail. A professional procurement qualification is desirable.
Job Description:
Develop and lead function of recently established procurement function, embedding cultural change, and work cross collaboratively across the charity
Embed the procurement policy and processes, review and improve internal processes and guidance for users, and report back on the KPI’s to Senior Management
Develop processes and skills throughout the charity of how to negotiate value for money deals and how to adopt a commercial mindset through providing training, mentoring and coaching
Work closely with all departments with a strong focus on international programmes to support best practice of value for money, ethical procurement, and compliance to international standards
Develop the procurement part of the compliance framework including the management of a contract register, approved suppliers framework and compliance of partners to these practices for managing gifted funds
Review existing contracts with the aim to generate realistic and sustainable savings through restructuring of the contract or negotiation with the supplier
Challenge/ support new vendor requests ensuring contracts are commercially robust and establish good value for money, leading tender processes and establishing best practice and guidance in this area
Review existing contracts with aim to restructure where required
Provide appropriate ad hoc procurement support and advice where required
Any other reasonable duties to support the charity
Person specification:
Essential
Considerable procurement management experience
Experience of procurement management in international charities/ aid agencies
Good written and verbal communication skills and the ability to convey complex information clearly, tailored to the audience
Positive attitude, proactive and team player
Ability to travel internationally when required
Able to work flexibly and juggle competing demands to meet deadlines
Graduate level qualification in Management, Financial Management, Supply Chain, Project Management or related
Desirable
Professional Procurement Qualification or Qualified by Experience
Alignment with charity sector values and culture
Salary
Up to £40,000 commensurate with experience
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Salary: £61,420 - £75,070 per annum plus benefits
Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time
Overview
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a great opportunity for three Software Development Team Leaders to join us on a permanent full-time basis.
At the RSC we embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means our teams come together when they need to collaborate. Although this role is contractually based at our Cambridge office, you will also be able to work from home within the UK, with the expectation that you will attend our offices and travel as needed for your role. In this role, you will attend our Cambridge office at least 1 day each week. If you need flexible working arrangements, please outline this in your application.
The RSC has an exceptional diversity of audiences - from employees across the world, teachers, scientists and academics, librarians and corporates to politicians and the public. Our work includes activities focused on our role as a support service to UK and international staff, a data source (e.g. for developers consuming data via APIs), a professional body (e.g. supporting members), a publisher (e.g. selling journals, books and databases), and an education resource (e.g. providing content to teachers, students and professionals). Our technology services underpin the operations of all staff members and of our websites and services.
As a Software Development Team Leader for the Royal Society of Chemistry, you will shape the software architecture and the fine-grained detail of configuration and implementation throughout the software development lifecycle for the performance, security and maintainability of the applications we build.
Working within our DevOps team and with your colleagues across the directorate, you will lead a team of cross-functional technical staff, comprised of both back-end (.NET C#, node.JS), front-end (HTML/CSS/JS/Vue.JS) developers, test automation engineers and site reliability engineers. Your work will enable the Royal Society of Chemistry to build, scale and continually improve our websites and services, serving our global audience of customers, users and colleagues. You will oversee the technical aspects of the product roadmap, working closely in collaboration with Solutions Architects and other Team Leaders to align with, contribute to and iterate on a shared architectural repository, guiding agile workstream members in technical implementation, assigning and ensuring quality delivery of backlog items and taking ownership of technical changes and releases. You will also directly line-manage a small number
of back-end C# .NET developers.
We are looking for:
• Strong knowledge and experience of full stack (.NET C# back-end development, HTML/CSS/JS/Vue.JS front-end development) software development life cycles.
• Experience with DevOps best practices, such as continuous delivery, continuous testing, infrastructure as code etc.
• Experience working within Agile practices, particularly Scrum and Kanban.People management experience including delivery quality, workloads and personal development.
• Knowledge of Authentication and Authorisation protocols (SAML, OpenID Connect).
• You can download the full job description here, please, note that this role is called Tech Leader internally. If you are interested in this role, please apply now. This role is advertised with an open end date and we will be conducting interviews regularly.
• When applying, please provide an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement (no more than 500 words) indicating how your skills, knowledge and competencies match the requirements outlined in the job description here.
At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates. As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who have a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
You may have experience in the following: Alternative job titles for a Software Development Team Leader include Software Development Manager, Team Lead - Software Engineering, Software Engineering Supervisor, Development Team Lead, Lead Software Developer, Software Team Coordinator, Lead Programmer, Technical Team Lead, Software Project Lead, Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead.
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We are seeking a seasoned fundraising professional with a passion for making a meaningful impact on some of the poorest children in the world. We are on the lookout for an experienced, organised and well-networked individual to join our team and drive our growth by identifying and securing grants from a diverse range of Trusts and Foundations in excess of £120,000 per annum.
We are a team of passionate volunteers in the UK and Tanzania who are dedicated to alleviating the extreme poverty that thousands of children in our partner communities face. In 10 years, our team of volunteers have fundraised over £700,000 (approximately 50% of which has come from Trusts and Foundations) and empowered over 25,000 children through our work.
The need for our support in Tanzania, whether that’s constructing new classrooms, delivering menstruation programmes or installing clean water, is growing. We have active partnerships with 9 rural government schools with engaged communities and have several projects planned at each school. We need help from the Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser to raise the funds to implement these projects over the next few years alongside our other sources of income.
Specific responsibilities:
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Managing our existing portfolio consisting primarily of Trusts and Foundations giving between £5k-£50k
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Write compelling, concise, well-presented, tailored grant applications in Google Docs.
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Research and develop new trusts, foundations and corporates.
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Report on progress of current prospects through the fundraising cycle
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Work with the Founding Director with reporting to Trust and Foundation funders that you’ve had success.
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Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all fundraising activity, including proposals, applications, and donor interactions
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Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the charity’s activities and programmes to be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders and potential funders
Knowledge, skills & experience required
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Minimum 3 years’ experience in a grant fundraising role, with a successful track record of regularly securing 4 and 5-figure grants.
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Excellent attention to detail.
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Knowledge of funding databases and other sources of potential funders
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Proven organisational skills with experience in managing multiple tasks and prioritising effectively.
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Excellent and engaging written communication skills and ability to adapt style to suit a wide range of supporters.
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Confident interpersonal and verbal communication skills, including diplomacy and negotiating skills.
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Ability to deal with people at all levels and from a wide range of backgrounds.
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Flexible, can-do attitude and good team player
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Ability to work independently to general guidelines, with the capability to use initiative and seize opportunities.
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Strong IT literacy and adept in making funding applications online. Training will be provided in Slack/Canva but must be familiar with MS Office and Google Suites
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Fluency in written and spoken English.
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Interest in international work that supports children living in extreme poverty.
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Experience of developing fundraising budgets.
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The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) seeks to nourish the world’s hungry by uniting and advancing food banks. Founded in 2006, GFN supports community-led solutions to alleviate hunger by connecting food banking organizations in approximately fifty countries that together serve more than thirty-two million people annually.
While millions struggle to access enough safe and nutritious food, nearly a third of all food produced is lost or wasted. We are changing that. We believe food banks directed by local leaders are key to achieving Zero Hunger and building resilient food systems.
The Global FoodBanking Network
Agricultural Recovery Hub Director
Salary: Starting at $65,000
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the establishment of the Agricultural Recovery Hub (ARH). The ARH Director serves as a resource for food banks globally to facilitate knowledge sharing, capacity building, and training in effective pre- and post-harvest food recovery. The ARH Director will also serve as an asset for food banks, agri-businesses, and government entities with an interest in product donation, food recovery, and food security. This new and hugely impactful position is based in Nairobi, Kenya but serves as a global asset learning from and supporting food banks all around the world.
The successful candidate will bring:
- Significant experience working in agriculture or agri-business related areas.
- Proven experience in managing complex cross-cultural settings and demanding projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Proven end-to-end program management experience with a strong working knowledge of project management tools.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (written & verbal). English proficiency is required.
- Excellent ability to build strong relationships with local, regional and global internal and external stakeholders.
The Global FoodBanking Network is committed to diversifying the background of its workforce and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.
If you wish to have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisors Harjit Bola or Mia Walker- Saunders at Prospectus.
For further information and to apply for this role, please review the appointment brief below:
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 3rd April
Preliminary Interviews with Prospectus (Online): w/c 22nd April
Interviews with The Global FoodBanking Network: w/c 6th May
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Read morePosition type:Full time, permanent, 37.5 hours per week
Responsible to: Deputy Director of Finance
Direct reports: Finance Officer x 2
Location: ShelterBox HQ, Truro, Cornwall (Remote UK will be considered)
Role purpose:
A senior member of the finance team and member of a collaborative organisation wide team of managers. Manage the financial accounting team whilst maintaining and developing systems to support the operation of a modern, progressive and supportive financial accounting function.
Responsible for monitoring and managing all financial legal, technical and compliance issues, including gift aid, VAT and other tax compliance, preparation of statutory accounts and managing external & internal audits.
The role reports to the Deputy Director of Finance and will be a key business partner across the business for all financial compliance matters.
The role manages two finance officers.
Who are we looking for?
ShelterBox is seeking a qualified accountant, with 10+ years PQE in relevant roles.
The successful candidate will have great communication and interpersonal skills and enjoy providing a service to assist internal customers and the charity in meeting their goals. Must be passionate about developing a modern, progressive finance function.
Extensive experience and knowledge of audit, banking, foreign currency, Gift Aid and VAT is required together with exposure to payroll and accounts payable.
With assistance from direct reports, duties will include but not be limited to:
• Responsible for ensuring the financial accounts department meets the needs of users of their services and the requirements of the charity.
• Develop and maintain efficient and effective financial systems and controls.
• Manage financial accounting team (2 X Finance Officers) to ensure a high level of service is provided by the team.
• Significant role in supporting the design and implementation of new ERP and Payroll systems.
• Development of appropriate policies to support role for use by the wider organisation and monitoring adherence with those policies.
• Preparation of annual statutory accounts and supporting audit schedules for parent charity and 2 subsidiaries
• Management and co-ordination of external audit
• Annual return submissions to Charity's Commission.
• Ongoing management of all treasury functions including cash management, foreign currency, banking relationships and banking disclosure requirements for transacting in high-risk foreign countries.
• Maintaining due diligence requirements of financial institutions we deal with.
• Monitor and manage long-term financial investments.
• Monitor and manage short-term financial investments, monitor weekly cash requirements and draw down cash to meet cash flow needs.
• Responsible for all aspects of VAT, including quarterly returns for all entities and irrecoverable VAT calculation.
• Chair of the Gift Aid working group. Responsible for Gift Aid compliance and coordination of Gift Aid compliance across the charity.
• Responsible for monitoring the external environment for changes in a range of compliance issues notably corporation tax, VAT, gift aid and audit.
• Support the wider finance team with the management of restricted funds as required, including monitoring the processing of restricted fund income and system configurations for restricted income processing.
• Maintenance of the nominal ledger structure and system configuration within the finance system.
• Oversight and leadership on payroll although this individual will not process payroll (with the exception of providing processing cover).
• Oversight and responsibility for accounts payable.
• Will ensure all overseas deploying staff are adequately resourced from a finance perspective in either foreign currency cash or company credit card.
• With support from the Finance Officers will manage any emergency requests for funding from overseas deployed staff
• Will ensure appropriate controls and reporting mechanisms are in place in relation to cash voucher programmes in the country.
• Assists Head of Legal and Risk with information provision in relation to insurance cover.
Other responsibilities
• Any other duties as required which are deemed appropriate to the level and grade of the post.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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What we are looking for
This is a 6 month role to support improvement of regular finance processes. The Financial Planning Analyst will work alongside our Financial Accountant to provide financial analysis and develop easy-to-use templates that support monthly accounting processes and financial modelling. This is a great opportunity to use your people and finance skills to help an organisation aimed at building a more sustainable world to become more financially sustainable.
We are looking for somebody who can understand and respond to user needs. You will be experienced in drawing out narrative and insights from financial data to support decision-making. You will have excellent spreadsheeting skills and be proficient in both Microsoft Excel and Google sheets. You will also have experience of using these skills to develop user-friendly templates that streamline budgeting and reporting.
Corporate Fundraising Manager
Salary: £45,000 -£51,000 dependent on experience
Job Type: Permanent
Location: London
The organisation offers a flexible working arrangement, combining both remote work and an in-office presence.
Your new role
The Corporate Fundraising Manager role is instrumental in driving the charities' mission forward by creating, managing and expanding their portfolio of corporate partnerships. The main responsibility is to produce business proposals using knowledge of fundraising strategies, donor development and grant writing. Other duties include:
- Research, approach and secure new corporate partnerships
- Fostering strategic relationships with corporate sponsors and donors
- Create and present compelling business proposals and pitches that are tailored to stakeholders to secure funding
- Evaluate the progress of fundraising campaigns, reporting key metrics to stakeholders
- Clearly communicate fundraising goals to stakeholders and corporate partners
- Act as an ambassador for the organisation, representing the charity at external events and other networking opportunities
- Undertake public speaking engagements and present to potential donors/ partners
- Maximise fundraising opportunities by collaborating with colleagues across the organisation to maximise income.
What you'll need to succeed
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a fundraising sales or income generation role.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and networking skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong organisational and project management skills
What you'll get in return
Hybrid work is available. Competitive annual salary
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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Read moreOffering hybrid flexible working, 3 days working from home and 2 days in the office.
As the Executive Assistant to the CEO, your role is to support the Chief Executive Officer in day-to-day tasks, support with the CEO office running smoothly, and facilitate effective communication. You'll handle administrative duties, organise important meetings, minute taking and keep confidential information secure. Your role is crucial in making sure the CEO's time is used well and that everything stays on track. We need someone who is proactive, can adapt quickly, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
As Executive Assistant to the CEO you will have:
* Experience supporting at CEO level in a not for profit organisation
* Used to managing upwards with personable stakeholder engagement ability
* Proficient in diary management, meeting coordination, travel planning and minute taking
* Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality
* Good understanding of GDPR and data protection
If this sounds like the role for you then we would be keen to hear from you. We are reviewing CVs as and when we are receiving them so if you are keen to apply, then please do so today.
TPP are always keen to speak with candidates looking to work in the sector so if this role isn't quite right for you, please do check out our website www.tpp.co.uk and pop your CV over to us!
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
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About AREF:
The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is dedicated to nurturing, mentoring, and supporting a community of researchers across Africa to become leaders in tackling global health challenges. Our focus is on supporting emerging health researchers within the first six years post-PhD to foster Africa as a hub for global science and research.
Role Overview:
As a Trusts and Major Gifts Fundraising Officer, you will play a pivotal role in increasing engagement, interest, and financial support from trusts, foundations, and major donors. You will manage and cultivate existing relationships while also identifying and developing new opportunities to secure funding for AREF’s impactful work.
Key Responsibilities:
Trusts and Foundations (70%):
• Manage and expand the portfolio of five and six-figure trust and foundation supporters, fostering personal relationships where possible.
• Research and identify potential trust and foundation partners aligned with AREF’s mission.
• Develop high-quality written proposals to secure both restricted and unrestricted funding.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure timely submission of proposals, budgets, and reports.
• Implement stewardship plans to thank donors and maintain strong relationships.
Major Donors (20%):
• Collaborate with the Head of Fundraising to identify and cultivate potential major donors.
• Develop bespoke cultivation and stewardship plans for major donors.
• Support the delivery of updates, reports, and events to engage high net-worth individuals.
Strategic Support (5%):
• Maintain donor database and filing systems to enable data-driven decisions.
• Contribute to strategic planning and budgeting processes.
• Monitor income against targets and KPIs, providing regular updates to management.
• Stay informed about developments and trends in fundraising.
Person Specification:
Skills and Experience:
• Proficiency in fundraising principles and methods for trusts, foundations, and/or major donors.
• Strong prospect research and donor stewardship skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Financial management skills and familiarity with budgeting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
Working Style:
• Collaborative, supportive, and enthusiastic team player.
• Flexible, proactive, and resilient in a changing environment.
• Strong negotiation and diplomacy skills.
• Organised, reliable, and detail-oriented.
General:
• Passionate about AREF’s mission and values.
• Logical thinker with problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing demands.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to meet deadlines.
Additional Desirable Experience:
• Experience with Salesforce or other fundraising databases.
• Previous work in a busy fundraising team.
• Experience in an international development organization.
If you believe you possess the necessary skills and experience and are passionate about making a difference in global health research, we encourage you to apply.
Salary: upto £35,638 (depending on experience)
Location: Home working with occasional travel to London for meetings
Previous applicants need not apply. AREF reserves the right to make an appointment before the closing date and will arrange interviews when they receive strong applications.
Application Deadline: noon, Wednesday 20th March, 2024
To find out more about AREF and the role, please download a copy of the recruitment information pack.
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Read moreCould you confidently manage the finances for the largest division of a household name INGO? Are you experienced in international finance business partnering and looking for a new challenge? Are you excited at the prospect of international travel and the opportunity to upskill finance teams based all over the world? If yes, read on!
This industry leading INGO is currently seeking a Deputy Director of Donor Finance to join their high-performing team on a permanent basis. This critical position holds ultimate financial responsibility for their largest directorate, including providing leadership and guidance to the internationally based finance teams, to maintaining and developing longer term plans and being accountable for financial performance against budget.
The key duties of this Deputy Director of Donor Finance are as follows:
- Ensure the maintenance of the directorate’s 2030 financial plan.
- Drive the development of the directorate’s annual business plan and subsequent budget cycle, validating financials and assumptions prior to submission.
- Provide critical challenge of all actual vs budget analysis. Ensuring all risks and opportunities have been understood and accurately captured.
- Business partner with the Country Directors to ensure their finance teams are operating at the highest efficiency level, providing opportunities for upskilling as required.
- Regularly produce reports for and present to the Head Office senior management team, keeping them abreast of in-country programme progress.
- Full responsibility for ensuring donor and year-end audits are conducted in accordance with respective standards, acting as the key point of escalation for anything high risk.
- Work closely with the COO in the development of working papers for the Board and Trustees, attending meetings to present the financials as required.
This role offers a unique opportunity for someone with a strong background business partnering with international teams and stakeholders, who is looking to take their experience to a new level in operational donor finance. This INGO have one of the best reputations in their area of expertise for hiring and developing first-class finance professionals, so this is not a role you want to miss. Please note this role is required to be in their London office for two days per week, and there is a requirement for international travel up to 5 or 6 times pre year.
The successful candidate will have:
- A full accountancy qualification.
- Demonstrable finance business partnering experience in a senior capacity.
- The confidence to challenge and build rapport with Director and Executive level stakeholders.
- Experience working on an international scale, ideally within an INGO but other sectors will be considered.
- A strong track record of capacity building and upskilling.
If this Deputy Director of Donor Finance is of interest, please don’t delay in applying as CVs are under continuous review.
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Read morePosition type: Full time, permanent, 37.5 hours per week
Responsible to: Director of Finance
Direct reports: None
Location: Truro, Cornwall (hybrid – mixture of office and home working) or remote working (UK only) will be considered (with regular travel to Truro at least 4x per year).
Role purpose:
As a humanitarian organisation, ShelterBox has both an ethical and business imperative not to exasperate environmental degradation through the aid that it provides, and this new role will be at the forefront of helping ShelterBox reduce the environmental impact of its humanitarian action. The Sustainability Manager is an exciting new role for ShelterBox and will be responsible for supporting the implementation of our environmental strategy. This will be a collaborative role working across teams and the sector to research, assess and implement initiatives that will see a reduction in our environmental impact. We want to be innovative and impactful and that lends itself to an exciting opportunity for the right individual.
Who are we looking for?
ShelterBox is seeking a bright, motivated, and proactive individual with great collaboration skills. They must have experience of having implemented a sustainability strategy or having been part of a team in a larger organisation that has done so. Sector experience is not essential but experience from an organisation involved in product sales and freight in an international context would be important.
This role cannot succeed on its own and will be dependent on colleagues throughout the organisation to research and implement changes to working practice. The candidate will need to work alongside teams in the organisation and be their sustainability trusted advisor. This role is therefore a truly collaborative role, and it will be essential that the candidate can build effective cross org relationships to support and influence colleagues. The successful candidate will engage with colleagues across the business, international partners, the wider INGO sector, and the commercial sector, to identify, research and implement new or enhanced shelter offerings with a lower environmental impact or introducing new or amended ways of working that would lead to the same outcomes. This role will need to consider, and carefully balance the environmental imperative with social, economic, and humanitarian needs.
Providing tools, data, and frameworks to support our programme managers project design decision making, will be an essential part of this role. The candidate will therefore also need to be willing to research, analyse and present research data. The successful candidate will have developed an emissions inventory before and be familiar with carbon accounting principles, or be willing to learn, as they will also be responsible for maintaining the charity’s emissions reporting.
The candidate has to be comfortable working across, and regularly switching between, a wide range of levels from the strategic, to the operational and rolling up sleeves to work with detailed reporting data.
They will be able to demonstrate experience in a similar environmental sustainability role, preferably but not essentially, within the INGO sector, with significant management experience and proven knowledge of driving sustainability.
Main role and responsibilities
- Deliver organisation’s Sustainability strategy.
- Work collaboratively across all functions, partners, and sector networks.
- Provide extensive consultative support to our International Programmes and Supply Chain teams.
- Drive analysis of carbon emissions and broader environmental impacts.
- In collaboration with our International Programmes team, research, develop and introduce new or improved ways of working that can reduce the environmental impact of our work. This will likely include engagement with local partners, teams across the organisation, sector bodies, academia, and the commercial sector.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify new ways of working in shelter design, freight, procurement, and head office activities.
- Introduce and drive internal head office initiatives to reduce our environmental impact and be a constant champion of behaviour change.
- Ensure the charity is compliant with legislative requirements.
- Working in conjunction with our digital and comms team, develop and maintain public communications in relation to our work including website content and annual reports.
- Work with fundraisers to develop calls to action to fund and expand our sustainability agenda.
- Act as the main point of contact for internal and external stakeholders in relation to environmental sustainability helping to maintain and develop relationships.
- Maintain our emissions reporting; and
- Work with internal shelter experts and sector bodies to improve environmental awareness of the impact of our work through improved LCA analysis.
Duties will include areas of responsibility in Strategy, Leadership and Change Management, Operational Improvement, Measurement and Reporting, Communication, Funding and Partnerships and Research. Please look at the full JD for further details.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are a welcoming and friendly organisation who own and manage more than 7,000 properties across the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, helping thousands of people in our communities every single day. This includes homes for affordable rent, homes for students and homes for older people. We even develop new homes to help people get on the property ladder. In addition to this, we provide Student accommodation. We support over 4000 learners a year with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider.
We believe that Safety is everyone’s responsibility, and that keeping our people safe, happy and engaged is at the heart of a successful H&S culture. Heading up our Occupational H&S at Acis, you’ll be instrumental in not only ensuring we keep our people safe and compliant, working with all parts of the organisation as a team to deliver excellence, but we also believe in the importance of employee wellbeing and the ’health’ in health and safety. You’ll have bags of drive, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver on our H&S objectives but also make sure our people have a safe and happy environment within which to work and thrive.
This role is Full time, however we would consider part time for the right candidate.
4 major things for you to consider...
Youre all about developing and maintaining a positive safety culture
You like to create and deliver H&S strategy
You understand how to talk to and deliver information to a wide ranging audience
You enjoy working in a supportive team
If that's you then we are well on the way! More below, but first...
Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:
- Salary up to £48000 depending on experience
- Generous holiday entitlement – At least 25 days annual leave every year increasing one day a year to 30, plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension contributions up to 10%
- The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
- One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
- Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
- Long service awards for our loyal employees
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced sick pay scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme to support you and your family
- Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
- Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
- Death in service benefit
As Health & Safety Manager, a typical day might include:
- Developing and embedding a positive H&S culture throughout the organisation, through daily actions messaging and ways of working, to ensure that positive H&S awareness and responsibility is the way things are done here.
- Monitoring our compliance against corporate occupational health, safety and regulatory measures, to make sure we are achieving the highest levels of compliance and safety.
- Putting together our operational and strategic H&S KPI performance measures, monitoring our performance, and using that data to drive performance improvement areas and insights.
- Supporting the Health and Safety Advisor in the delivery, support, and effective onboarding of all new employees to embed our safety culture and ways of working
- Providing H&S leadership and information on the Health and Safety Steering Group - contributing and support employees to understand, improve on, and deliver a high positive H&S culture.
- Supporting line managers and senior managers in assessing, improving and delivering on consistently high standards; ensuring that employees and managers take active responsibility for their own safety and to achieve standards of excellence
- Overseeing of Accident, Incident and Near-Miss investigation and appropriate management of any RIDDOR cases, to ensure that suitable and sufficient corrective and preventative actions are taken and appropriately recorded
- Working with members of the People Services team on building our wellbeing program to ensure that we are supporting our people with their wellbeing and thriving at Acis.
- Leading on getting us ready for, and then maintaining, our target for achieving ISO45001 accreditation
Some of the experience/skills we would like to see:
- IOSH member
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent professional qualification in Health and Safety Management
- Excellent knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation and best practise
- Experience of leading Health and Safety, and managing Health & Safety Risk
- A passion for Health and Safety and the drive to progress
- Knowledge of health and safety regulations, quality management systems, and industry standards
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a positive and flexible approach
- The ability to influence and engage with all levels of the organisation
- Proficient use of IT systems, including word and excel
What will make you stand out from the crowd:
- Line management experience preferred
- NEBOSH Fire or alternative additional Health and Safety qualification
- Proven experience within the housing, construction, education or similar industry
- Previous involvement in wellbeing strategy / groups
As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate
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